• Theory
• Political Economy
• Applied Critical Thinking I – Western Cultural History From the Italian Renaissance to English Romantic Poetry
• Applied Critical Thinking II – Western Cultural History From the Industrial Revolution & Realism to Post-Modernism

Theory

Part I – Introduction
The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory

• Lecture 1: The Global Media Society and the Nature of Theory
• Lecture 2: A Brief History of Western Philosophy: From Socrates to Hegel

Part II– The Nature of Theory

• Lecture 3: The Ultimate Example of Theory as Answer
• Lecture 4: Theory As Answer and Prediction
• Lecture 5: Theory as Answer: An Epistemological Critique
• Lecture 6: E.H. Carr and The 20 Years’ Crisis: A Structural Analysis
• Lecture 7: A Structural Analysis of The Twenty Years’ Crisis and The Dynamics of Theory as Question

Part III– Society and Objectivity:
Claude Levi-Strauss & Max Weber

• Lecture 8: Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, and The Savage Mind
• Lecture 9: The Dynamics of Mythical Thinking: Bricolage, Classification and Transformation
• Lecture 10: The Interlinked Dynamics of Mythical Thinking and Political Thinking: The Post-World War II US Experience
• Lecture 11: Cognitive, Normative and Emotional Aspects of Myth and Post-1945 American Political Thinking
• Lecture 12: Dominant Myths and the Production of Media
• Lecture 13: Dominant Myths and the Consumption of Media – Media and the Consumption of Dominant Myths
• Lecture 14: Max Weber, Verstehende Sociology and A Democratic Theory of Objectivity
• Lecture 15: The “Objective” Analysis of Action, Thought and Concrete Situations

Part IV – Consciousness and Communication:
Freud and Kenneth Burke

• Lecture 16: Freud, Dream Analysis and “The Fundamental Question”
• Lecture 17: “The Fundamental Dilemma,” Dream Analysis and Medianalysis ©: Interpreting the “Dreams of the World”
• Lecture 18: Kenneth Burke and the Structural Dynamics of Communication and Language
• Lecture 19: Hierarchy, Image and The Structural Dynamics of Narrative and Story

Political Economy

• Lecture 1: Transition and Introduction to Political Economy

Part I – The Schools of Political Economy

• Lecture 2: Neo-Classical Economics
• Lecture 3: Monetarism
• Lecture 4: Keynesianism
• Lecture 5: Long-Wave/Schumpeter

Part II – The Ideologies/Dominant Myths of Political Economy

• Lecture 6: Socialism & Liberalism
• Lecture 7: Nationalism
  

Part III – The Great Powers and the World Political Economy from Ancient Greece to the Internet

• Lecture 8: Ancient Prologue: The Political Economy of The Peloponnesian War
• Lecture 9: Europe 1350 - 1815: A Political / Military / Strategic Outline
• Lecture 10: W. Arthur Lewis and The Evolution of the International Economic Order
• Lecture 11: The British Empire and The Rise of Germany: 1815–1914
• Lecture 12: Europe 's Second Thirty Years' War: 1914–1945
• Lecture 13: The Structural Dynamics of the US-Centered World Political Economy: 1945–Present
• Lecture 14: The Golden Age of the US-Centered WPE: 1945–1959
• Lecture 15: US-Centered WPE: Trouble In Paradise: 1959–1973
• Lecture 16: The Age of OPEC: 1973–1982
• Lecture 17: The Rise of the PC Economy and The End of the Cold War: 1982–1989
• Lecture 18: The US Triumphant and The Birth of the Internet Economy: 1989–2000
• Lecture 19: The Millennium Crisis I 2000 – 2001: First Stages – Stock Crash / Legitimacy / Unilateralism
• Lecture 20: The Millennium Crisis II, 2001 – 2007: September 11 / Iraq / US on the Brink
• Lecture 21: The Millennium Crisis III, 2008 – 2009: Global Financial & Economic Meltdown

Core Course III
Applied Critical Thinking I
The Birth of the Modern: From the Italian Renaissance to English Romantic Poetry

• Lecture 1: Transition and Introduction To Western Cultural History
• Lecture 2: Italian Renaissance
• Lecture 3: Northern Renaissance and Protestant Reformation
• Lecture 4: Baroque – Theory
• Lecture 5: Baroque Painting and Culture
• Lecture 6: Louis XIV and the Nationalization of Culture – Overview/Politics/Religion
• Lecture 7: The Life of Louis XIV
• Lecture 8: Louis XIV, Moliere, and The Birth of a National Cultural Institutional Infrastructure
• Lecture 9: The Cultural Politics of Liberalism – Enlightenment/Romanticism/Revolution
• Lecture 10: The English Crucible: Absolutism, Civil War and Puritanism: 1625–1660
• Lecture 11: The Crucial Turning Point: The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and England from 1660 to 1756
• Lecture 12: The French Enlightenment and the Old Regime: 1685–1789
• Lecture 13: Enlightenment, Liberalism and The Dynamics of the American Revolution and Experience
• Lecture 14: Rousseau, Romanticism, and The French Revolution through The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
• Lecture 15: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Birth of "Modern" European Culture: Germany from Frederick II to Hegel
• Lecture 16: The Flowering of Cultural Liberalism: English Romantic Poetry: 1789–1830

Core Course IV
Applied Critical Thinking II
Modernity: From the Industrial Revolution & Realism to the Present

• Lecture 17: The Industrial Revolution and Realism: The Culture of Confrontation
• Lecture 18: French Impressionism: Revolution in Painting – Resignation in Culture?
• Lecture 19: 19th Century Existentialism: The Culture of Obsessive Alienation – and Wagner's Ring
• Lecture 20: European Modernism and the Anguish of Consciousness Divided: 1900–1933
• Lecture 21: Dada and Surrealism: Humor, Militance & the Radical Juxtaposition of Images: 1914–1945
• Lecture 22: Nazi – Welt – Krieg: Racism/Mass Murder/World War: 1933–1945
• Lecture 23: Reconciling the "Is" and the "Ought": The Cultural Dynamics of the Post-WWII Era: 1945–1973
• Lecture 24: Global Modernism: Liberal Decency After the Holocaust and Atom Bomb: 1945–1963
• Lecture 25: 60s/Cultural Revolution: Ten Years Still Shaking the World: 1963–1973
• Lecture 26: Dazed and Confused: Stagflation, Cable TV, & the Crisis of Political/Cultural Liberalism: 1973 –1979
• Lecture 27: Cold War Post-Modernism: Reagan, Identity Politics and The End of Commonality: 1979–1989
• Lecture 28: Post-Modernism with a Human Face: Internet, Prosperity & Irony Amok: 1989–2000
• Lecture 29: The Millennium Crisis I – The Fundamental Problems: The Low Level of Public Discourse – Everywhere – & Stagnation
• Lecture 30: The Millennium Crisis II – The Basic Issues: Political Islam / US Collapse: Ideological – Intellectual – Media / Global Economic Disaster
• Epilogue: Theory as Question, Media Analysis & The New Humanism: Into the 21st Century

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